The PING Junior Solheim Cup will celebrate its seventh year in event history, Aug. 12-14 at The Inverness Hotel & Golf Club in Englewood, Colo. The United States leads the all-time series, 3-2-1 in the biennial competition that pits the top 12 female junior golfers from the United States against their European counterparts.

The United States and European PING Junior Solheim Cup Teams are solidified and the players’ professional counterparts will soon be named to Solheim Cup teams.

The inaugural 2002 PING Junior Solheim Cup was contested at Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins, Minn. The tournament hosted the top 12 female junior golfers from the United States to face the top 12 female golfers from across the pond in Europe.

Beyond their PING Junior Solheim Cup experience, each of these golfers boasted impressive junior golf careers. Creamer and Pressel tied for the fourth-most career individual wins, each claiming 11 titles in national junior competition from 2001-05. This pair of dominant junior golfers also captured Rolex Girls Junior Championship crowns the same year they were named Rolex Junior Players of Year, with Creamer in 2003 and Pressel in 2005.

Lang and Lincicome played alongside one another from 2000 to 2003 and each earned Rolex Junior All-America honors during their junior golf tenure. Lang tallied six career individual AJGA titles, including the 2002 Thunderbird International Junior, before she joined Duke’s women’s golf team. Lincicome was a four-time AJGA champion and competed on the Wyndham Cup East Team for four consecutive years, posting an 8-5-3 record.

After teaming up in 2002 for the PING Junior Solheim Cup, the players took different paths leading to the LPGA Tour. In 2009, they reunited on the professional level and once again represented the U.S. at the Solheim Cup. Lang and Lincicome teamed up for the Day One Four-Ball match and defeated their European opponents, 5 and 4. Each of the reunited players won her singles match en route to Team USA keeping its undefeated record on home soil, winning 16-12.

At the 2011 Solheim Cup, the four players joined forces again with Pressel leading Team USA as the only player on the squad to post an undefeated record of 4-0-0. Creamer and Lincicome teamed up in two Foursome matches and were unbeatable after winning their first match, 1-up and second match, 3 and 1. Despite the strong play, Team USA lost its first Solheim Cup since 2003 after Team Europe captured the Cup, 15-13.

Whether it is at the junior or professional level, Solheim Cup is a setting for memories of competition and camaraderie. Who will follow in the footsteps of Creamer, Lang, Lincicome and Pressel?

The American Junior Golf Foundation is the primary recipient of all charitable giving to the AJGA and as such administers a variety of programs designed to compliment the AJGA and the members and families who make up our community. Learn more about these important programs and how your contributions to the Foundation secure the AJGA’s financial future for future generations to come.

The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA’s mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.

Leadership Links

What is Leadership Links?

Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.

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development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.